What does your avatar mean?

Well, the thread is about YOUR avatar, wheres it is from and what does it mean? Share and let the public know.

As you might have guess, my avatar is none othe- ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

Mine is a photoshoped Inquisitor from concept art of the game Risen; After about 30 minutes of googling >_<

With a Monty Python spinoff! xD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjfAX9yOa-c : SPOILER incase you ever watch this anime! :
Thats somthing sort of explaining him, the girl who got shot doesnt die, though, long story... Anyway, Merial got the idea to cut off some parts from a picture to make our avatars, heres the origional picture http://sadpanda.us/images/96671-C9AG82D.jpg

EDIT : Just changed it, now it means im a depressing emo kid.

EDIT : Changed it again.
What the hell do you think it means O_o?

Mine is taken from the artwork of an artist called Victoria Francés who does gothic based artwork.

Any chance someone is able to diminish the Size of this picture and edit it so that I can be used as an Avatar? D;






Doesnt seem to wanna appear, but it's the frist picture of Exilius in the RP Outfit thread, the one simply featuring his Profile.

Changed Avatar for now

It's an orc.

It's Will Arnett from Arrested Development, one of the best comedy series ever.

It's me!

I am an Arthas fanatic, and love Arthas.
Arthas rules the world, best character ever.

GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT HUUUH!?

He's awesome, and the shot I took pretty neat.

"And from its ashes a new order shall rise, that will shake the very foundations of the world!"

Lucifer, before the fall. (just in case you don't recognize the name, you may know him under the name of "Satan" and a thousand more, which all describe what he became after the Fall, nothing to do with this picture.)
Artist: Arkoniel

He's just perfect. The perfect power, the perfect calmness, the perfect self-awareness. Not his rise, not his fall, but his peak. Didn't last long, but it was perfect for how long it did. Isn't that the case with all that's good? They don't last long, but they're perfect while they last.

It's just a cartoony drawing of me IRL, drawn by my best friend (Known as Tinkerella to some RP'ers)

Restroom signs? Without these you'd be wandering around in other gender's bathrooms. So show some respect.

It means this lil'fellah drinks and does awesome ninja moves.

It's the personification of The Ashbringer from a short WoW parody comic.

I dig fingers.

Quin wrote:I dig fingers.

Good, cause I got magic ones.

Good, cause I got magic ones.

Chase just won the Most Epic Saying of The Day award.

Its a subtle commentary of the interplay between the forces of darkness and of light, interwoven with the tragic story of the rising unemployment in Sheffield after the gradual decline of the steel trade.

Its a subtle commentary of the interplay between the forces of darkness and of light, interwoven with the tragic story of the rising unemployment in Sheffield after the gradual decline of the steel trade

I did not see that one coming.

Nor did those poor steel mill workers.

The Ankh was, for the ancient Egyptians, the symbol (the actual Hieroglyphic sign) of life but it is an enduring icon that remains with us even today as a Christian cross. It is one of the most potent symbols represented in Egyptian art, often forming a part of decorative motifs.

The ankh seems at least to be an evolved form of, or associated with the Egyptian glyph for magical protection, sa. However, what the sign itself represents is often disputed. For example, Sir Alan Gardiner thought that it showed a sandal strap with the loop at the top forming the strap, but if so, the symbolism is obscure and so his theory has found little real favor early on. However, this interpretation seems to have received some acceptance among modern writers. It would seem that the ancient Egyptians called that part of the sandal 'nkh (exact pronunciation unknown). Because this word was composed of the same consonants as the word "life", the sign to represent that particular part of the sandal, was also used to write the word "life".

Another theory holds that the ankh was symbolic of the sunrise, with the loop representing the Sun rising above the horizon, which is represented by the crossbar. The vertical section below the crossbar would then be the path of the sun..

Wolfhart Westendorf felt it was associated with the tyet emblem, or the "knot of Isis". He thought both were ties for ceremonial girdles. Winfried Barta connected the ankh with the royal cartouche in which the king's name was written, while others have even identified it as a penis sheath. The presence of a design resembling a pubic triangle on one ankh of the New kingdom Covering all the bases with an ankh, djed and was-sceptre as an amulet seems to allow for the idea that the sign may be a specifically sexual symbol. In fact, guides in Egypt today like to tell tourists that the circle at the top represents the female sexual organ, while the stump at the bottom the male organ and the crossed line, the children of the union. However, while this interpretation may have a long tradition, there is no scholarly research that would suggest such an exact meaning.

The ankh, on some temple walls in Upper Egypt, could also symbolize water in rituals of purification. Here, the king would stand between two gods, one of whom was usually Thoth, as they poured over him a stream of libations represented by ankhs.

The ancient gods of Egypt are often depicted as carrying ankh signs. We find Anqet, Ptah, Satet, Sobek, Tefnut, Osiris, Ra, Isis, Hathor, Anibus and many other gods often holding the ankh sign, along with a scepter, and in various tomb and temple reliefs, placing it in front of the king's face to symbolize the breath of eternal life. During the Amarna period, the ankh sign was depicted being offered to Akhenaten and Nefertiti by the hands at the end of the rays descending from the sun disk, Aten. Therefore, the ankh sign is not only a symbol of worldly life, but of life in the netherworld. Therefore, we also find the dead being referred to as ankhu, and a term for a sarcophagus was neb-ankh, meaning possessor of life.

And why this as an avatar? Might be because I have it tattoed on my body with the eye of horus in the middle of it... *ponders* I simply adore it, the shape, the stories, the symbolism..And it does in partial ways have something to do with what I believe in. Sorry for the wall of text, it could have been larger but I tried to limit my explinations a little...

Horus!?



HERESY!

VOLLEYBALL! 'cause I am VOLLEYBALL!